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by Tim Mooney (Editor), Dermot Moran (Editor) "Born into an aristocratic family in Germany in 1838, Franz Clemens von Brentano studied philosophy and theology at the universities of Munich, Wurzburg, Berlin, Munster..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (18 April 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415224225
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415224222
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.5 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 148,622 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'In addition to such central figures as Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Gadamer, this book also contains clear introductions to, and useful excerpts from Reinach, Scheler, Stein, de Beauvoir, Arendt, Derrida, and Ricoeur. The result is a rich, informative, reliable, and highly readable guide to phenomenology from its inception to the present day.' - David Bell, Sheffield University

'A judiciously selected and carefully edited series of readings in phenomenology. It will make an ideal sourcebook for students and an excellent textbook for teachers.' - Simon Critchley, University of Essex

'This well designed reader, crafted by Dermot Moran and Timothy Mooney, is as close as one can get to capturing the whole of phenomenology in a single volume. The introduction gives lucid guidance to the beginner while its tracking of the historical background to phenomenology has rich material for scholars as well. This collection would make an excellent textbook for courses and seminars.' - Professor Donn Welton, The University at Stony Brook, New York

'In addition to such central figures as Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Gadamer, this book also contains clear introductions to, and useful excerpts from Reinach, Scheler, Stein, de Beauvoir, Arendt, Derrida, and Ricoeur. The result is a rich, informative, reliable, and highly readable guide to phenomenology from its inception to the present day.' - David Bell, Sheffield University

'A judiciously selected and carefully edited series of readings in phenomenology. It will make an ideal sourcebook for students and an excellent textbook for teachers.' - Simon Critchley, University of Essex

'Clearly the product of serious thinking and a significant contribution ... the anthology is exemplary in its comprehensiveness, accessibility and its combination of informative discussion with critical evaluation.' - Critical and Cultural Theory



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The first comprehensive anthology of classic writings from phenomenology's major thinkers. Selected readings chart phenomenology's most famous thinkers. Each author and their writings is introduced and placed in context by the editors.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Consciousness-raising, 21 Oct 2004
By Kurt Messick "FrKurt Messick" (London, SW1) - See all my reviews
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It is somewhat ironic that Phenomenology, as a term or as a philosophical school, has yet to really reach the popular consciousness, given that phenomenology is in many respects a study of consciousness and how reality impacts consciousness. Phenomenology in the most formal sense of being a school of philosophy is largely traced to Franz Brentano (1838-1917) and Edmund Husserl (1859-1938). Husserl's great work at the turn of the last century, Logical Investigations, set the stage for the development of phenomenology as a way of seeing, a descriptive study with roots in empiricism going back to inspiration from Aristotelian ideas. This is a key word - description. Rather than being a set of constructs and principles typical of previous philosophical systems, Phenomenology attempts to describe reality fully as reality is presented to our senses.

Phenomenology is different from scientific study in that it does not pretend toward a universal truth or experience unmediated through our subjectivity (a principle modern science seems to be incorporating more and more). Editor Dermot Moran has a solid introduction to the subject, including distinctions of different kinds of study, some of the personalities involved in the development of phenomenology, and the current state of the discipline.

The list of names of those involved in phenomenology as a discipline or as a method reads like a who's who of twentieth century intellectuals - Derrida, Ricoeur, Arendt, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, and others. Each of these, in addition to Husserl and Brentano, have articles and extracts included in this volume, along with some other thinkers as well. The collection here shows the breadth of the influence of phenomenology on the intellectual development of the past hundred years, as well as take the reader through a sequenced development of phenomenology using representative primary texts, provided here in an accessible, English-language edition.

This book can be used as a collection of readings in connection with Dermot Moran's text, Introduction to Phenomenology (also by the Routledge Press, 2000). It can also be used as a stand-alone survey of phenomenology with success, particularly if the reader takes advantage of the lists of further readings at the end of each section.

Phenomenology is a fascinating subject, and the method of learning the subject from the original sources, the primary texts of the foundational thinkers, is second to none.

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This reader is definitely needed as the complement to Moran's Introduction to Phenomenology (also available through Amazon). I bought Dermot Moran first, and was dissapointed at the lack of theoretical and philosophical content and at the excess of politicisation and historicism. This volume, edited by Moran, was the antidote to that dissapointment. The readings selected are exemplary, and while given the breadth of thought and subjects tackled by the phenomenologists a single volume can only present a nibble, a lot of work seems to have gone into the selection process so that the diversity of phenomenological application to philosophy and of the matters for thought of the philosophers is really lit up for us. Taken together this and Moran's volume form an excellent point of departure (in all senses - see the generous inclusion of Derrida and Levinas) for understanding the basics of phenomenological hermeneutics, and of how phenomenology can stand quite independantly of other discliplines, being in its own right a worthy method of reflection and inspection.
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